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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-01-26 , 15:41
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#38
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
The OP dilemma still exists. There's no way to sell apps.
But this is where you go wrong ! Unlike the Apple variant, the Ovi store is not the ONLY way of distributing apps and facilitating payment ! You could shove an app into the non-free section of Extras and handle payments via Paypal/Moneybookers/whatever today. That's why I say people developed tunnel vision with regard to app distribution on mobile platforms.

Angry Birds got support. Why can't somebody that's behind the engine of 400+ apps?
Angry Birds is a special story. Nokia already had a deal with Rovio, hence Angry Birds.

I know there's no DRM, but that didn't exactly stop WayFinder from finding a way to sell their app. It's not a perfect setup, some people bypassed it; however that's one possibility.
Exactly, see above, you don't need Ovi to do what WayFinder did.

And all of this should have still been worked out before the release, imho.
Obviously. But Ovi is a separate divison and apparently well over their heads in the whole distribution thing even before Maemo, which just aggravated issues.
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